Watch-dial fastener



(N0 Model.)

M. E. SHI'PFEJRLY. WATCH DIAL PASTENER.

No. 599,640. Patented Peb. 22, 1898.

WWW/ww UNITED STATES ,PATENT OFFICE.

MARRION ELBERT SHUTTERLY, OF MOUNT PLEASANT, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-DIAL FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,640, dated February 22, 1898. Application filed May 14, 1897. Serial No. 636,501. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may conceive:

Be it known that I, MAEEION ELBERT SHUT- TERLY, of Mount Pleasant, in the county of Westmoreland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVatch-Dials 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and

exact description of the invention, such asl will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a novel construction of watch-dials for adapting them to be readily applied to watches having different movements. In watch-dials of the usual construction the dial is adapted to be applied to watches of a single movement only, or those of a single manufacture, and as no two movements or manufactures are identical it follows that in order to supply a new dial to a watch requiring it a large stock of dials must be constantly kept on hand, and even then it frequently happens that not a dial can be found that will fit the movement for such dial.

The object of the present invention is to remedy this difficulty' and provide a dial that can be readily and accurately adjusted and applied to any and all movements, the proper diameter of dial only requiring to be determined.

The construction by which the above-described result is obtained will be understood from the following description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure l is a face view of a watch-dial. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same. Fig. 3 represents a section through the dial, showing one of the dial-feet and its adjustable head in elevation.

l indicates the dial-copper, to which the dial-enamel 2 is applied in any usual manner. Instead of the dial being formed of enamel it may be of celluloid and cemented to the frame of the dial-copper in a manner also well understood.. The dial-copper is shown provided with three segmental grooves 3 near its periphery, through which extend the feet 4., by means of which the dial is secured in place upon the watch. These feet, instead of being rigid and immovable, as in the ordinary construction, are provided on their ends adjacent to the dial-face copper with heads 5, which hold the feet in engagement with the dialcopper, the slots permitting the adjustment of the feet and adapting them to the location of the sockets for their reception under any arrangement of the sockets, such arrangement differing in different movements or manufactures of watches, as explained. These feet, instead of penetrating the dial-copper, may be made to engage segmental grooves therein, which will permit their adjustment in the are of a circle to bring them into proper relation to be applied to a watch. Vhen so adjusted, the feet and movement to which they are to be applied are secured in place by dialfoot screws in the usual manner.

It will be apparent that by making the feet adjustable in the manner described a dial of any preferred ornamentation or material may be readily applied to a watch of any movement represented by the different manufactures thereof.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is l. A watch-dial provided with feet adjustable on its back, each in an arc of a circle for adapting said dial to be applied to different movements or manufactures of watches, substantially as described.

2. A watch-dial copper provided with segmental slots or grooves, in combination with headed dial-feet engaging said copper and made adjustable thereon, substantially as described.

3. The combination with a watch-dial, of a slotted or grooved dial-copper, a dial-face applied to one side of said copper, and adjustable feet secured to the other side thereof, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARRION ELBllItl SHUTTERLY.

Vitnesses:

LEWIS SHUPE, FRANK T. PURDUE. 

